30-something year old living somewhere

Tag: Politics

We went to the polling place rather late in the day and only 23% or so of the people on the list there had shown up before us. Granted, it had been a lovely day outside and a long weekend (iirc), but still!

Ah. Good to hear they’re planning the first strikes against the new government already… but for September, of course. Wouldn’t do to impede on holiday time! (Why don’t I use emojis on here, the rolling/laughing guy would do well here)

I woke up to a headline that represents rather well my general feeling about this year’s French elections and that feeling is, “wait… what?” And the headline that I saw was, “François Fillon est soupçonné de ne pas avoir rendu les bons costumes” (“François Fillon is thought not to have given back the correct suits”)… I’m saving reading the article for after my first three coffees.

60 year anniversary and then Article 50 trigger 3 days later. What a year. I would just like to point out that without the EU being as it is, pretty much my whole life since the age of 24-ish would have been completely different and probably very boring.

Everyone is signed up to What The F*ck Just Happened Today, right? I wish someone made the same thing for following the French elections… I could try but I have absolutely no knowledge of how “proper” journalism works – for me, an article is something you perfect over months and you send off for peer reviewing.

The people who are shocked by the Penelope-gate are very naïve. The higher you get in that government, the worst it gets – there must be some kind of empiric law about it. The worst a clerk can do is probably steal office supplies but when you have the power to pay people, it gets on a whole new level.